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There's no way surely that Bristol City will let him leave for a promotion-chasing rival?! Not in this window anyway.

Why weaken your own squad and strengthen a side that might prevent you from getting promotion? If I was in the Bristol City heirarchy I'd be doing all I can to persuade him to stay for at least 6 months. Promotion or not, if he really wants to leave, let him go in the summer. He's got age on his side in that he could still leave for a Premier League club in summer anyway as that's his ambition no doubt.

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There's no way surely that Bristol City will let him leave for a promotion-chasing rival?! Not in this window anyway.

Why weaken your own squad and strengthen a side that might prevent you from getting promotion? If I was in the Bristol City heirarchy I'd be doing all I can to persuade him to stay for at least 6 months. Promotion or not, if he really wants to leave, let him go in the summer. He's got age on his side in that he could still leave for a Premier League club in summer anyway as that's his ambition no doubt.

Didn't Brighton bid the same amount?

They did, and given that crazy money would be required to let him leave, this bid will be rejected.

However he was raised in Derbyshire so I assume that's why they've made this bid, to unsettle him as he may want to return to Derby.

To make this story even more bizarre, we played Derby a few weeks ago... and their centre-backs were the best players on the pitch.

I wonder if the sole purpose of this bid is to unsettle Aden Flint; there's no other reason why they'd make such a small bid to start off with.